The Vancouver, Wash. attorney who prosecuted Roy Wayne Russell, Jr., for the 2005 killing, says “he’s livid” that state lawmakers have enacted a law that could free Russell – again – in four years.
Dori: Killer could soon go free despite ‘3 Strikes’ sentence; prosecutor blames state Democratic lawmakersLeft: Roy Russell, Right: Chelsea’s grandmother, Sylvia Johnson, at right, holding a photo of Chelsea. On Wednesday, The Dori Monson Show spoke with the grandmother of a teen girl who was strangled by a felon previously released from his first “And now, the Vancouver, Wash. attorney who prosecuted Roy Wayne Russell, Jr.
“It’s a long and sad and very horrible story,” described Senescu, who recalls the 2006 sentencing judge telling Russell that he was “the poster boy for the Three-Strike Act.” Four years later, Senescu told Dori, Russell, then 46, was hosting parties at his Vancouver duplex for 12- to 18-year-olds. At one party, after other guests left, Russell “raped, assaulted and murdered – strangled – Chelsea in the basement of his home, dumped her naked, upside-down in the shower, flooded his basement and fled.”
The bill – now law – not only changed second-degree robbery from a serious “Three Strikes” offense going forward, “but they went one step further:” they made it retroactive.
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